The Pktgen Application

Pktgen, (Packet Gen-erator) is a software based traffic generator powered by the DPDK fast packet processing framework.

Some of the features of Pktgen are:

• It is capable of generating 10Gbit wire rate traffic with 64 byte frames.
• It can act as a transmitter or receiver at line rate.
• It has a runtime environment to configure, and start and stop traffic flows.
• It can display real time metrics for a number of ports.
• It can generate packets in sequence by iterating source or destination MAC, IP addresses or ports.
• It can handle packets with UDP, TCP, ARP, ICMP, GRE, MPLS and Queue-in-Queue.
• It can be controlled remotely over a TCP connection.
• It is configurable via Lua and can run command scripts to set up repeatable test cases.
• The software is fully available under a BSD licence.

Pktgen was created 2010 by Keith Wiles @ windriver.com, now at intel.com

See the sections below for more details.

Contents:

• Getting Started with Pktgen
• Running Pktgen
• EAL Commandline Options
• Pktgen Commandline Options
• Multiple Instances of Pktgen or other application
• Pktgen command line directory format
• Runtime Options and Commands
• CLI Sample Application
• CLI library guide
• Running Script Files
• Using Lua with Pktgen
• Socket Support for Pktgen
• Changes in Pktgen
• Pktgen-DPDK - Traffic Generator powered by DPDK
• Copyright and License
• Third Party License Notices